Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!reading!minster!forsyth From: forsyth@minster.york.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Request For Comment About Handling Of Globals Message-ID: <658854328.439@minster.york.ac.uk> Date: 17 Nov 90 15:05:28 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England Lines: 12 You might find the following paper interesting. I don't know whether it has been published elsewhere. It supports the view that modules and packages are redundant: use praiseworthy (first-class) procedures instead. %T In Praise of Procedures %A I. F. Currie %I Royal Signals and Radar Establishment %C Malvern %M 3499 %D 1982 %K RSRE,flex